Break the Social Media Addiction Using Nudges
Social media – we love it! Worldwide, upwards of 4 billion people (more than half the humans on the planet) use some form of social media. It’s as ubiquitous as air, water and carbohydrates. [...]
Improve Well-being to Reduce Hard and Soft Health Costs – Part 2
Part 1 defined employee well-being, described the effect of job demands and resources and made the case that diminished well-being takes a financial toll. What can a company do to reduce the individual and [...]
Improve Well-being to Reduce Hard and Soft Health Costs – Part 1
As we navigate our way through the COVID-19 pandemic, we have entered a new workplace, one that both differs from and resembles the old work landscape. Some aspects of work will drift back to [...]
Thriving When Work is Remote (Part 2)
In Part 1, I suggested some requirements for a fulfilling job, whether remote or at a traditional work site. That’s half the equation for a satisfying and productive employment experience. Individual capabilities make up [...]
Thriving When Work is Remote (Part 1)
In 2020, work has taken on a Gertrude Stein sort of feeling, a sense of distance from our old work sites. These lines from “You There,” a verse that appears in my book [...]
Thriving In The Virus Time
Three Ways to Help Employees Thrive During the Virus Time COVID-19 threatens almost all of us, endangering our individual well-being and imperiling the collective health of our businesses. It also poses a more insidious [...]
Three Reasons Why You Need to Laugh…RIGHT NOW!
During the coronavirus sequestering, all jokes will become…inside jokes. I got that gag off the internet. Feel free to reuse. If that dad joke didn’t strike your funny bone, then find some other reason [...]
Channel Your Inner Sisyphus
You think your work can be boring? Right now, as you read this screen and sip your coffee, the mythological king Sisyphus is in Hades, straining to push a rock up a hill for [...]
Three Ways Humor Reduces Workplace Stress
When the American Psychological Association studies stress in the U.S., their findings routinely identify work as one of the top three sources of elevated anxiety. The other major sources vary, from money worries to [...]
Humor at Work
When the American Psychological Association studies stress in the U.S., their findings routinely identify work as one of the top three sources of elevated anxiety. The other major sources vary, from money worries to [...]